"As a speaker and trainer, Kim George has the unique combination of passion, authenticity and expertise to deliver results to her audience. Her interactive, enthusiastic style engages people, leaving a lasting impression. I highly recommend her if you’re looking for a speaker that is both inspirational and provides practical, strategic information to grow your organization."

Dr. Ivan Misner, Founder and Chairman of BNI

"When scheduling trainers and speakers for our company we evaluate three major criteria: (1) The speaker’s ability to connect with and interact appropriately with the audience (2) The speaker’s quality of material and (3) the passion that the speaker has for their subject. Kim George is superlative in all three criteria and moreover is a consummate professional. In my years of experience with her in a variety of settings she has never failed to deliver what she was hired to do. Prepare for a gracious and professional experience that will leave your audience/organization asking for more of Kim."

Michael Garrison, VP, The Referral Institute

"Kim is a superior speaker. Technically, she spoke with clarity, and without notes.Intellectually, she told us some things we didn't know. Personally, she stayed and participated in the entire evening's program, enjoying us and being enjoyed by us. You just can't get much better than that. Our door is always open for Kim."

Craig Jennings, President, NYC Midtown Coaching Center

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Discovering the Essence of Resistance: Your Scarcity Paradigm
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:00 PM

Speaker Information

Kim George is available for both keynote presentations and workshops.

To book Kim George for your event, please contact her agent:
Paul Bassis
(707) 923-4619 (Pacific Time)
paul [at] infinite9.com

Speaking Topics

For Business Audiences

Topic: Getting Out of Your Own Way: How Scarcity Sabotages Business Growth

Summary:

Do you find yourself overwhelmed and frustrated, unable to do all that you can do? Are you working harder and harder with little impact on your bottom line? Strategies and goals will only get you so far. In this presentation, Kim George explores the real opportunity cost to business growth – a scarcity mentality. Find out where you’re holding your business back and how making one simple, but profound change in your business will give you the results you’ve been longing for.

You are your business. Discover how you can maximize your assets instead of increasing your liabilities through this powerful performance approach.

Deliverables:

Participants will discover:

The 7 key ways scarcity sabotages business growth
The opportunity cost of a scarcity mentality
The barriers to doing what they can do in your business
How you show up in business is directly related to how you show up in life
The difference between an abundant mentality and a scarcity mentality
The single most important action step to increasing business performance and satisfaction

This presentation can be delivered as a keynote or 2 hour workshop.

Social Capital and Networking Skills

Topic: The Power of Connecting: How to Build a Marketing Platform By Leveraging Your Social Capital

Summary:

You may have heard the phrase "six degrees of separation", but do you know how to utilize the concept of Social Capital to grow your practice? In this interactive workshop, Kim George takes the mystery out of networking and practice building by outlining the essential skills every coach needs to be build a powerful platform. Social Capital, the power and potential of your professional and personal networks, is the key to building a marketing platform that gets clients and gets results. Kim will walk participants through interactive small group sessions on how to map out your networks, determine your network potential and untapped resources, as well as utilize the power of connecting to add maximum value to your key business relationships and referral sources. Building your business has never been this natural, or this fun!

Content Outline:

What is Social Capital?
- Definitions and examples
- 6 Degrees of Separation in practice, not just theory
- Importance of diversity, breadth and depth in your networks
Abundant Networking vs. Transactional Networking
- The Law of Reciprocity
- The Power of Being a Connector: Characteristics of a Connector
How a platform is critical in marketing your products and service
- Defining a platform
- Benefits of a platform
- Utilizing the VCP Process – Visibility, Credibility, Profitability
Understanding and visualizing your personal and professional networks - Diagramming your networks
- Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of your networks
Positioning yourself to add maximum value to your network
- Becoming a hub firm
- Strategies for adding value
Bridge builder
Expert
Host
Platform builder
Collaborator

Learning Objectives:

Participants will: - Be able to define Social Capital - Understand the impact to their business of leveraging Social Capital - Articulate the characteristics of Abundant Networking/Connectors and how to apply these characteristics to business building - Be able to define a platform and identify how developing a platform will benefit their business - Be able to apply the VCP process to their contact database for enhanced marketing exposure - Diagram their professional networks to obtain a visual representation of their Social Capital - Identify the strengths and weaknesses of their networks - Articulate key strategies for adding value through the creation of their platform

This presentation can be delivered as a half day workshop or segmented for shorter sessions.

For People Who Coach: Coaches, Consultants, Leaders, Managers

Topic: Doing What You Can Do: An Introduction to Abundance Intelligence®

Summary:

Are you, your clients, or your employees struggling to achieve, acquire, or become something? Join Kim George as she explores the scarcity mentality behind "potential" and discover how you can utilize coaching to help others embrace the DNA of their Greatness. In this preview of the book, Coaching Into Greatness: 4 Steps to Success in Business and Life, published by Wiley & Sons, Kim will demonstrate how every aspect of business and life is linked to abundance and scarcity.

Explore how Abundance Intelligence® is a pioneering method in coaching technology:

People living in scarcity see the cup as half empty. Positive thinkers see the cup as half full. People living in abundance see the cup as overflowing. But people living into their greatness are the cup.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn:

A new definition of abundance and scarcity that makes a shift from external to internal paradigms
How to recognize the patterns of abundance and scarcity in their business and personal lives as well as with their clients
The 7 Illusions which are primary sources of scarcity thinking
The 7 Abundance Aptitudes which are primary sources of abundant thinking
How greatness relates to abundance
The 4 step process for shifting from scarcity to abundance in any given situation
The value of Abundance Intelligence® as a pioneering coaching methodology that impacts every facet of business and life

Specifically tailored to the needs of professionals who utilize coaching in their work, this session addresses the essence of Greatness and how scarcity shows up in work situations -- keeping clients and employees from doing what they can do.

This presentation is available as a keynote and as an extended workshop.